Urban Public Realm Consulting provides pre-development and post-development public open space planning, design, and management strategies. We apply context-based and social psychological approaches to promoting responsible and lively public activities and counteracting dysfunctional elements in public use settings.  

We believe that well-designed and managed public realm places can produce a variety of tangible public and private sector benefits.   Physical appearance, walkability, and meaningful combinations of cultural and civic features, market services and products, and recreation and leisure activities can create the most enticing and dynamic public places.  We provide site-specific design, development and management strategies to achieve and maintain socially successful plazas, paseos, promenades, marketplaces, leisure spaces, small parks, and public use areas of mixed-use transit-oriented, civic, leisure and retail projects.

Urban Public Realm Consulting's site evaluation research and services are tailored to the needs of developers, design and landscape architecture firms, BIDs, area redevelopment agencies, property managers, local merchants, security specialists, town planners, and chambers of commerce.  We help project stakeholders reinforce the most positive social activity and dynamics central to their interests.